Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights Violations, Intersex Awareness, Intersex Traits, Self-Determination

All Intersex Bodies are Beautiful, and I do not need fixed to fit your ‘normal’.

After forty-six years, I finally figured out that I was born in the right body!  Since my life had been destroyed by this ideal regarding male and female, I have joked that I was born to the wrong planet at times though.  I joked that the Mothership had left me here. Yes, my life was… Continue reading All Intersex Bodies are Beautiful, and I do not need fixed to fit your ‘normal’.

Celebrations, Intersex Awareness, Questions and Answers, Self-Determination

I am a SEAHORSE Dad

For fun, I compare myself to a seahorse dad.  For it is the seahorse dads who give birth.   Yes, I am a gestational father, a term I got from my intersex friend.  I am an intersex person, who identifies as being a man and gender nonconforming because my body is not male.  My body… Continue reading I am a SEAHORSE Dad

Intersex Awareness, Questions and Answers, Self-Determination

I was born with an Intersex body, but this does not create my Gender or my Sexual Orientation.

It is important that I share with you something I see many having confusion around when referring to a person born with intersex traits. My body was born with physical traits of both male and female.  There are many different ways this can happen in a person, but to keep things simple, for me it… Continue reading I was born with an Intersex body, but this does not create my Gender or my Sexual Orientation.

Intersex Awareness, Questions and Answers

The Incidence of people born with intersex traits: One in 150

Dr. Carie Gabriel Costello offers a compelling argument that reveals the incidence of people born with intersex traits to be greater than one in every 150 births. "A true, conservative estimate is that more than 1 in 150 people are born with intersex bodies. In this post, I'm going to explain why the true commonplace… Continue reading The Incidence of people born with intersex traits: One in 150